On Friday evening, March 3, 2023, Nan Goldin held an impressive, very personal speech when receiving the Käthe-Kollwitz-Prize 2022 at Akademie der Künste in central Berlin. Nan Goldin was the last lecturer after a pathetic and warm speech by Klaus Biesenbach, now director of the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) in Berlin, whose first exhibition …
Nan Goldin receives the Käthe-Kollwitz-Prize 2022 Read More →
Which forecast can I seriously make now in the beginning of the year? First: In the last decades the art market tend to react slighly time delayed to recessions. We saw this in 1990/1991 and in 2008/2009. Therefore, the extremely wealthy will continue to support the high-end market. The prices for a very few artists …
Art Market 2023 – what about sustainability and trends? Read More →
Yesterday, the Paul G. Allen Collection achieved more than $ 1.5 billion. This is the highest amount one single auction has ever achieved at an auction house. Christie’s New York sold masterpieces from Allen’s Collection. In 1975 Paul G. Allen founded Microsoft together with Bill Gates. After separating in 1983 Allen continued to invest in …
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From September 12 to 18, 2022 the blockchain week takes place in Berlin. The program offers a wide range of possibilities for everybode to connect within the blockchain community. There are workshops about crypto currency and networks such as Polkadot & Kusama or symposia on themes such as the intersection of blockchain, politics and futurology …
Berlin Blockchain Week 2022 and Next Block Expo in September 2022 Read More →
Is it a strange coincidence that on Saturday, June 11, 2022 not only the 12th Biennale for Contemporary Art will open in Berlin but also the WTA-500 tennis tournament at the Lawn Tennis Turnier Club Rot-Weiss? There are only so few really international events in the German capital that it sounds at least mysterious to …
12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art opens next week Read More →
The silkscreen entitled “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” from 1964 will come to auction in May in New York. The auction house Christie’s just published the estimation which is a sensation: 200 million US-Dollar are expected for the silkscreen. Why is the estimation so high as there are several versions of Monroe’s portraits in different colours …
Andy Warhol’s Marilyn: The New Icon of the 20th Century Read More →
The painting “The Foxes” by Franz Marc from 1913 was sold in London for more than 42 million pounds on March 1, 2022. By the sale Christie’s achieved a record for Franz Marc. Before the auction could take place, the scramble about the “Foxes” took more than three years. Only in January, 11th – two …
The pandemic seems to have given some people more time to think about their professional future. At the moment we see an unusual high amount of new businesses on the art market. You find some interesting new galleries in the Western centres of the market: In Paris, a new gallery for African art is founded …
The 10th edition of the Berlin Art Week started for the second time under pandemic conditions. As the German art market is still not back to its level from before the Corona crises this is one of the most important events in Germany for collectors, curators, galleries and art enthusiastics to talk and discuss about …
The German Fluxus, happenings and performance artist Joseph Beuys had great influence on the German and European art scene as an artist as well as a theorist of art. He was born 100 years ago on May 12 in 1921. In occasion of this anniversary it seems to be appropriate to take a closer look …
Joseph Beuys and the art market in the jubelee year 2021 Read More →
